Forensic community mental health nurses have a particularly tough task trying to get other professionals and the public to accept their clients. Argues that wrong attitudes simply reinforce the vicious circle of antisocial behaviour.
Forensic community mental health nurses have a particularly tough task trying to get other professionals and the public to accept their clients. Argues that wrong attitudes simply reinforce the vicious circle of antisocial behaviour.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, nurses, nursing, patients, risk, violence, aggression, attitudes, challenging behaviour, community mental health services;
McCLELLAND Norman, HUMPHREYS Martin, CONLON Lorraine, HILLIS Tony
Publisher:
Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication year:
2001
Pagination:
157p.,bibliogs.
Place of publication:
Oxford
Follows the continuum of care for patients who suffer from mental disorders, reflecting current forensic mental health nursing care practice. Reaside Clinic medium secure unit in the West Midlands is used as a focus, showing multi-disciplinary care from initial assessment, through patient stay, to discharge into the community. Contents include: Referral to admission; assessment; treatment approaches; interprofessional working; vocational rehabilitation; dealing with hostility; suicide; legal aspects; research and training; aftercare; diversion from custody; future challenges.
Follows the continuum of care for patients who suffer from mental disorders, reflecting current forensic mental health nursing care practice. Reaside Clinic medium secure unit in the West Midlands is used as a focus, showing multi-disciplinary care from initial assessment, through patient stay, to discharge into the community. Contents include: Referral to admission; assessment; treatment approaches; interprofessional working; vocational rehabilitation; dealing with hostility; suicide; legal aspects; research and training; aftercare; diversion from custody; future challenges.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, multidisciplinary services, rehabilitation, risk, schizophrenia, suicide, therapies, therapy and treatment, training, vocational rehabilitation, admission to care, after care, assessment, carers, community mental health nurses, community mental health teams, custodial institutions;